tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811228767705174709.post2139293636700240254..comments2023-06-19T03:55:20.088-04:00Comments on Boston Unitarian: "God Bearers"slthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15780928540224945711noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811228767705174709.post-66932900866197700852008-11-09T20:19:00.000-04:002008-11-09T20:19:00.000-04:00Road Trip!!!Road Trip!!!PeaceBanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431551457505981195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811228767705174709.post-35964806012327687242008-11-06T22:13:00.000-04:002008-11-06T22:13:00.000-04:00Thank you for sharing your scholarship and it woul...Thank you for sharing your scholarship and it would be great to talk about these things in real life. Blessingsslthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780928540224945711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811228767705174709.post-47318024076581123972008-11-06T00:19:00.000-04:002008-11-06T00:19:00.000-04:00What are you crying about? Stop being such a cryb...What are <I>you</I> crying about? Stop being such a crybaby and quit yer belly-achin', for crissakes!<BR/><BR/>It's the centrality of this notion that God is a stern but loving parent, and we are all God's children and brothers and sisters to one another, that forms the heart of Ware's criticism of Emerson's Divinity School Address. Ware had once considered Emerson a protege (it's not really clear to me how deeply this understanding was reciprocated), and had essentially hand-picked him as his successor at 2nd Church...but Emerson's assertion that "the Soul knows no persons" and his understanding of the Oversoul in generally basically left the older man cold. <BR/><BR/>"Take away the Father of the universe," Ware wrote, and "mankind becomes but a company of children in an orphan asylum." Or to put it even more strongly, it is as though "the little child, with its full heart longing for the embrace of its absent mother, should be told, 'That mother is but an idea, not a person; you may think of her, but you can have no intercourse with her; be satisfied with this.' "<BR/><BR/>The other great document to look at if you truly want to understand where the Wares are coming from is Daniel Shute and Henry Ware Sr's <I>A Compendious and Plain Catechism: designed for the benefit of the rising generation, and recommended to the attentive use of heads of families in the education of their children, as adapted to improve them in piety and virtue.</I> This was published in Boston in 1794, and is doubtlessly at least one of the reasons Ware Sr. was offered the Hollis Professorship at Harvard. As far as I know, it is only available on microfilm, as part of the Early American Imprints series #27702.<BR/><BR/> Ware Sr. also wrote a much more substantial <I>Inquiry into the Foundation, Evidences, and Truths of Religion,</I> but by the time this was eventually published in 1842, the Transcendentalism of the younger generation had essentially passed him by.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, BU, for this wonderful excuse to trot out all this research I did a decade ago now. And thank you, PB, for bringing us all together like this. We must definitely do this in real life soon.The Eclectic Clerichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12692982208236857534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3811228767705174709.post-51740693457978087502008-11-02T21:00:00.000-04:002008-11-02T21:00:00.000-04:00Quit making me cry.Quit making me cry.PeaceBanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431551457505981195noreply@blogger.com